Theaanna Kiaos

Author Details: Dr Anna Kiaos is the Director of Mind Culture Life Australia and a researcher at the University of New South Wales within the Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health. The Australian Government’s Department of Health released its National Men’s Health Strategy 2020-2030, yet little evidence supports the strategy is effective in reducing men’s experience of stigma due to widespread hegemonic masculinity, writes Dr Anna Kiaos.   The Australian Government has recognised that...

Australian employees are increasingly lodging workers' compensation claims for psychological injury Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) appear to be the first line of defense for Human Resource departments when employees are observed to be experiencing stress and ill-mental health at work, yet are Human Resource personnel and EAP service providers as effective as they need to be? With poor mental health costing the Australian economy from $12.2 to $22.5 billion each year [1]  and with...

Dr Anna Kiaos is the Director of Mind Culture Life Australia and a researcher at the University of New South Wales within the Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health. Australia’s cost-of-living crisis has promulgated a need for a proportion of employees to engage in generating multiple sources of income, typically by holding concurrent employment [1] . According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), in September 2024 there were 986,400 multiple job-holders (6.6% of employed...